2010

Opportunities and challenges in urgent care reform

13 October, London

Whilst the NHS has been driving up access standards and increasing capacity in the past decade, politicians, professionals and patients expect more. With the governments health white paper commitment focusing on outcomes rather than targets, what will a quality improvement approach look like for urgent and emergency care?

This year’s Ambulance Service Network conference, entitled Opportunities and challenges in urgent care reform, provided members with the oppotunity to join with colleagues and peers from across the country to debate and discuss how urgent care can be improved to deliver better services at a time where the NHS faces an unprecedented efficiency challenge and new commissioning and regulatory landscapes.

All presentations and notes will soon be available on the events website. For further details, please vist the event website.

ASN non-executive directors event - Leeds

14 July, Leeds

The ASN held the first of two meetings for ASN member non-executive directors (NEDs) where delegates had the opportunity to hear from speakers on key topical subjects and participate in the debates. These included:

• The White Paper 
• Commissioning and the ambulance services
• Francis Inquiry into the care provided by Mid- Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
• Ambulance service and the public health agenda.

Read more on the event page.

ASN and National Ambulance Commissioners Group commissioning event

The Ambulance Service Network and the National Ambulance Commissioners Group held a joint event on 1st July to explore the future approach to commissioning and providing ambulance services in England. The aim of these discussions is to enable commissioners and providers to identify some shared objectives and solutions on commissioning.

Download the workshop presentations and notes.

2009

ASN and MHN joint workshop

Developing Alternative Care Pathways – Challenges and opportunities

12 November 2009,  Birmingham

This joint workshop took place at the Mental Health Network (MHN) one-day conference and looked at developing alternative care pathways between ambulance and mental health services, and the opportunities these offer to improve patients’ outcomes, improve efficiency of services and reduce costs. The ASN and MHN joint publication, exploring partnership working between the two services was also launched at the event.

Please visit the workshop page for further information.

ASN Conference 2009
Emergency and urgent care: Today and tomorrow

13 October 2009, London

The first ASN conference and exhibition brought together senior managers from all parts of the NHS and social care to discuss, develop and share good practice on delivering high quality emergency and urgent care.

For further information about what was discussed and presented at the event by our speakers at the plenary session and workshops, please visit the Emergency and urgent care: Today and tomorrow webpage.

ASN Stakeholder dinners 2009

The ASN held a series of dinners with senior figures in the NHS. The dinners provided an opportunity for ASN chairs and chief executives to discuss the strategic issues and challenges facing the ambulance service and wider NHS.

The ASN would like we like to thank the following speakers who were able to join us for discussions at various dinners in London:

27/05/2009               William Moyes, Executive Chairman, Monitor

02/06/2009               David Nicholson, CBE, NHS Chief Executive

15/09/2009               Lord Carter of Coles, Chair, Co-operation 
                                                                     and Competition Panel

ASN meets with Martin Fletcher, Chief Executive, National Patient Safety Agency 

18 May 2009

In January 2009, the NHS Confederation held a member dinner with Martin Fletcher, Chief Executive, National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), which a number of Ambulance Service Network (ASN) members attended. Several important issues were raised at the event on ambulance services, patient safety and risk, and a follow up meeting was arranged on 18 May to continue the discussion.
Read more on the ASN meeting with Martin Fletcher, Chief Executive, NPSA.
The NPSA's presentation.

Joint ASN and CQC event on developing provider reviews

9 March 2009, Victoria Park Plaza, London

For more information and to download the presentation made by the CQC, please visit the CQC Developing Providers Reviews page.

PCT Network Conference 2008
World Class Commissioning, World Class Health

22 January 2009
Liz Kendall, ASN director and Sally Gorham, chief executive, Waltham Forest PCT led a session at the PCT Network's one-day conference on how commissioners have a critical role in managing the demand for and capacity of urgent and emergency care in their areas. 
Liz Kendall presentation

NHS Employers annual conference 2008
ASN session on urgent care workforce

4 – 6 November 2008
Liz Kendall, ASN director and Norma Lane, director of urgent care and clinical services, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust, led a workshop on the future urgent care workforce. 
Presentations now available to download,
Liz Kendall's presentation
Norma Lane's presentation

ASN and Healthcare Commission seminar on the future of urgent and emergency care

26 September 2008
The ASN and the Healthcare Commission joint seminar discussed the findings from the Healthcare Commission’s review of urgent and emergency care services Not just a matter of time: a review of urgent and emergency care services report.  Notes and presentation now available to download,
Liz Kendall's presentation
Feedback from delegates on the Commission's diagnosis
ASN summary